expansible
Example Sentences
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However absurd the cereal wars may appear, Roth says he is simply trying to act before the really big guys muscle in on his highly expansible idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Genital tuft: in Lepidoptera; an expansible tuft of fine hair believed to be scent-producing.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Of the founders of the lasting and expansible theories of natural science, it may be said, that "thoughts beyond their thoughts to those high bards were given."
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
The concertina consists of two hexagonal or rectangular keyboards connected by a long expansible bellows of many folds similar to that of the accordion.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
Their parts are highly movable; they are compressible and expansible, and their volumes are inversely as the weight compressing them.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
